Béatrice Lachaussée

Born in Paris, the French-German director Béatrice Lachaussée studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, before graduating in Opera Direction from Vienna’s University for Music and Performing Arts. She worked at renowned European opera houses as an apprentice such as Theater an der Wien, Wiener Staatsoper, La Monnaie, assisting stage directors like Olivier Py, Carlos Wagner, Christof Loy, Andrea Breth, Jérôme Deschamps, Torsten Fischer. She graduated by directing Dido and Aeneas from Henry Purcell in 2012. Šimon Voseček’s new opera Biedermann und die Brandstifter ("The Fire Raisers") marked her directing debut for the Neue Oper Wien in 2013. She won the Götz Friedrich Studio Prize (’best chamber opera’) for Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz, which was staged in a church with Cologne Opera in 2014. She